BRITISH FILM FOCUS

Sundays 8.30pm in September

September explores some of the best new films from Britain. ‘Maze’ highlights the history of Northern Ireland and the biggest prison escape since World War Two. It charts the dramatic relationship of two enemies that suggest the first steps to peace in Ireland in the 1980s. Nominated for a BAFTA in 2019, ‘Care’ explores aging and family. It is an honest and inspiring exploration into the brutal change associated with sickness. ‘Beast’ is another fine piece of British cinema. Filled with grit, the film was a winner of a BAFTA for Outstanding British Debut in 2019. It stars Jessie Buckley (Chernobyl) and Johnny Flynn (Vanity Fair). It is a complex storm of love and murder, set on a small community on the Jersey Coast. Featuring a stand out British cast of Sam Clafin, Stephen Graham (The Virtues) and Asa Butterfield, Journey’s End follows the fatal tension and impending doom of front line warfare in World War 1. Bravery cripples in the face of reality, in this sobering film.

Sunday 29 September 8.30pm

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The Virtues

The Virtues

Sunday 1 September 8.30pm

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Iona

Iona

Sunday 22 September 8.30pm

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Pick OfThe Litter

Pick Of The Litter

Pick of the Litter follows a litter of puppies from the moment they're born as they begin their quest to become Guide Dogs for the Blind, the ultimate canine career. Cameras follow these pups through a two-year odyssey as they train.

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Divide & Conquer: TheStory of Roger Ailes

Divide & Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes

The personal, political and surreal story of Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes. Widely called a bulldog and a kingmaker, Ailes was the Wizard of Oz, and untouchable. As a key advisor to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and George H.W. Bush, he shaped more than fifty years of American political history.

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Trump'sShowdown

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Maze

Sunday 29 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Maze is the incredible true story of the 1983 mass break-out of 38 IRA prisoners from the HMP Maze high security prison in Northern Ireland. Larry Marley (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) is the mastermind of the largest prison escape in Europe since World War II.

Care

Sunday 15 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Jenny Northwood is a single mother struggling to raise her two girls since her husband left her for another woman. Jenny’s widowed mother, Mary, is her lifeline helping out with the kids so that Jenny can hold down a job.

Iona

Sunday 22 September 8.30pmChannel 039

A young woman and her teenage son flee Glasgow, seeking refuge from a violent crime. They travel overnight to her birthplace, the isle of Iona, after which she is named. Once there, Iona must attempt to live among the religious community she had left behind.

Custody

Saturday 14 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Miriam and Antoine Besson have divorced, and Miriam is now seeking sole custody of their son Julien to protect him from a father she claims is violent. Antoine pleads his case as a scorned father whose child has been turned against him by a vindictive mother.

Amelie

Friday 6 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Amelie, a painfully shy waitress working at a tiny Paris cafe, makes a surprising discovery and sees her life drastically changed for the better. From then on, Amelie dedicates herself to helping others find happiness in the most delightfully unexpected ways.

Number One

Monday 2 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Emmanuelle Blachey is a brilliant and ambitious engineer who has risen to the top of a major French energy firm. When she is approached to head one of the top companies in the country, her comfortable life soon changes.

Beast

Saturday 7 September 8.30pmChannel 039

In a small island community off the Jersey coast, a troubled young woman falls for a mysterious outsider who empowers her to escape her oppressive family. When he comes under suspicion for a series of brutal murders, she defends him at all costs.

Divide & Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes

Thursday 5 September 8.30pmChannel 039

The personal, political and surreal story of Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes. Widely called a bulldog and a kingmaker, Ailes was the Wizard of Oz, and untouchable. As a key advisor to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and George H.W. Bush, he shaped more than fifty years of American political history.

The Cleaners

Wednesday 4 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Ever wondered who polices Facebook? This topical, rattling documentary is essential and illuminating viewing. The Cleaners introduces us to 5 content moderators, all based in the Philippines, whose services are contracted to social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and Google.

The Virtues

Sunday 1 September 8.30pmChannel 039

A bold new four part drama from Shane Meadows (This Is England) exploring themes of repressed memory and revenge! The Virtues centres around Joseph, a struggling alcoholic, who finds his world beginning to spiral when his ex-partner moves away from Liverpool to Australia to start a new life with their young son.

Tuesday 3 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Rosalie Blum

Monday 9 September 8.30pmChannel 039

The biggest hit in the 27-year history of the Alliance Française French Film Festival, Julien Rappeneau's enchanting directorial debut, Rosalie Blum, is a witty and ingeniously crafted comedy about a random encounter that has life-changing consequences.

Generation Wealth

Wednesday 11 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Documentarian Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of Versailles) examines and reflects on the global desire to be wealthy at any cost. This visual history of the growing obsession with wealth takes us from Los Angeles to Moscow, Dubai, China and around the world.

Postcards From the 48%

Thursday 12 September 8.30pmChannel 039

On the 23rd June 2016, the UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the European Union. Despite both sides having been widely accused of relying on information ranging from the crudely distorted to the unashamed lie, neither side presented any of the precise information.

Rabbit Proof Fence

Friday 13 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Three mixed-race girls are torn brutally from their Aboriginal mother and sent over a thousand miles away to a training camp for domestic workers as part of a government policy to integrate them into white society.

La Porta Rossa

Tuesday 10 September 8.30pmChannel 039

After having identified his murderer in Season 1, Commissioner Cagliostro has still remained in the world of the living. But when the time comes to leave his earthly life forever, something unexpected happens.

Lost In Paris

Monday 16 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Lost In Paris stars the actual filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical French vagabond. Fiona's (Gordon) orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha who is living in Paris.

Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie

Wednesday 18 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Director Andrea Nevins follows the efforts to transform Barbie into more than a 21st-century toy. We follow the designers and marketers attempting to rebrand Barbie’s public image by remodeling her appearance.

Trump's Showdown

Thursday 19 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Throughout 2018, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation - and President Donald Trump’s fury about it - have dominated the headlines. Trump’s Showdown traces the dramatic events that have led the White House and the United States to the brink of what could become a Constitutional crisis.

Vera Drake

Friday 20 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Vera Drake is a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family. She spends her days doting on them and caring for her sick neighbour and elderly mother. However, she also secretly helps women induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies.

Double Lover

Monday 30 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Chloé lives alone with her cat in Paris. Unable to fight bouts of depression, she enters psychoanalysis. In Paul Meyer, she finds a caring psychiatrist who gradually helps her overcome her irrational fears.

Pick Of The Litter

Wednesday 25 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Pick of the Litter follows a litter of puppies from the moment they're born as they begin their quest to become Guide Dogs for the Blind, the ultimate canine career. Cameras follow these pups through a two-year odyssey as they train.

Motorcycle Diaries

Friday 27 September 8.30pmChannel 039

In 1952, two young Argentines, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and Alberto Granado, both young graduates, set out on a road trip to discover the real Latin America that they have only read about in novels. Ernesto is a 23-year-old medical student specialising in leprology, and Alberto, 29, is a biochemist.

Trapped

Monday 23 September 8.30pmChannel 039

A sensational new French two part thriller! Elsa Aubry, out of the blue, is informed that she is the lucky beneficiary of 1 million Euros from a complete stranger. But before she gets the money, she has to complete a macabre task "To kill a man who deserves to die"!

Stray

Saturday 21 September 8.30pmChannel 039

Two damaged strangers fall into a complex relationship in Kiwi director Dustin Feneley’s beautiful yet harrowing debut feature film. Jack is on parole for GBH, and holes himself up in a cabin, somewhere in Central Otago. Is he trying to forget his past or reconcile with it?

Hawke: The Larrikin and the Leader

Thursday 26 September 8.30pmChannel 039

A riveting in-depth examination of the life and leadership of Labour legend Bob Hawke. Australians have never been so wary of politicians. But there was a time when things were different. From the moment he arrived on the national scene, Bob Hawke was the rock god of Australian politics.

Journey's End

Saturday 28 September 8.30pmChannel 039

March, 1918. C-company arrives in northern France to take its turn in the front line trenches, led by the war-weary, Captain Stanhope (Sam Claflin). With a German offensive imminently approaching, the officers and their cook use food and the memories to distract themselves.

Yellow Is Forbidden

Wednesday 28 August 8.30pmChannel 039

Kiwi director Pietra Brettkelly (A Flickering Truth) takes us into the opulent world of show-stopping Chinese designer Guo Pei as she prepares to make her Paris debut and seek admission into the exclusive club of haute couture.

Charley Pride: I'm Just Me

Thursday 15 August 8.30pmChannel 039

The improbable journey of Charley Pride, from his humble beginnings as a sharecropper's son on a cotton farm in segregated Mississippi to his career as a Negro American League baseball player and his meteoric rise as a trailblazing country music superstar.

The Virtues

Sunday 18 August 8.30pmChannel 039

A bold new four part drama from Shane Meadows (This Is England) exploring themes of repressed memory and revenge! The Virtues centres around Joseph, a struggling alcoholic, who finds his world beginning to spiral when his ex-partner moves away from Liverpool to Australia to start a new life with their young son.